May 2011
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that's me on your ghetto
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“[It] saved my life. That record just seemed liked it shed some light in my life....”
– Mary J Blige, talking about Soul II Soul’s ‘Keep On Moving’.
April 2011
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Watch/Hear Fiona Apple Cover 15 Songs
twentyfourbit:
She may be one of the best songwriters around, but Fiona Apple also knows her way around a great cover rendition. To wit: Apple has fearlessly taken on classics by the likes of Bill Withers, Jimi Hendrix, and The Beatles, while — perhaps with a bit of endearing trepidation — performed jazz standards made famous by Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and other legends with ease, not to...
March 2011
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“The idea of a reunion came up and then we just started talking about the Pixies....”
– Now bands not-quite-yet-split-up are on the reunion trail. Yes, I laughed.
LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang on the possibility of a reunion after the band’s final gig this Saturday. (via pitchfork)
February 2011
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Here Is How To Be A Woman In A Boys' Club →
Funny, provocative and oh so true. Particularly love the “Drive It Like You Stole It” one.
rawkblog:
mollylambert:
A Handbook/Manifesto For Everyone, by Molly Lambert at This Recording
Infinite likes
January 2011
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"Satire was mostly dead in 2008 and its corpse is... →
maura:
Walkoff Walk, which is a baseball blog run by some smart guys who I like very much, is shutting down at the end of the month, and in this post co-proprietor Rob Iracane broke down how the rise of microblogging might have in part helped hasten the demise of the site—”Heck, our favorite people in the whole world, our thirty-or-so devoted commenters, are very well-represented on the...
December 2010
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November 2010
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Where It All Went Wrong... →
Fullsome account of Amanda Ghost’s ill-fated 20 months at the helm of Epic Records. (Reads like a great rock n’ roller, though.)
September 2010
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“Generation Gaga doesn’t identify with powerful vocal styles because their own...”
– Camille Paglia Lady Gaga: What’s sex got to do with it? | The Sunday Times (via seaninsound)
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UK 'blind' to British black female artists →
As a black female musician, the thought had never occurred to me that, as Simon Frith suggests in this BBC report, the UK’s black female musicians do not get a fair crack of the whip. Whilst blame and responsibility are easy props to throw around in any debate, Frith may have a point.
And it’s a point worth coming back to. What do you think?
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In defence of Liz Phair
Dear Liz,
I thought long and hard before writing you this letter. I hesitated many times (because I am a wuss who cares to some degree what others think), and thought that for anyone to care enough about what Liz Phair’s musical output to actually write a letter to her…? Well, that would just smack of nerdism pretty much off the scale. I mean, does anyone even write “fan...
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Useless conversationisms #1
So often we, deliberately, don't say what we mean. Why?
June 2010
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May 2010
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It's Eurovision... not tunnelvision.
Last night, Great Britain (and Northern Ireland, lest we forget - although they’d probably rather wish we did) came bottom and last in the annual Eurovision Song Contest. The third time in eight years.
Although I didn’t need to listen to Josh Dubovie’s Mike Stock/Pete Waterman-penned number That Sounds Good To Me to know it didn’t stand a chance, I did. It’s not so...
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Miranda Sawyer interviews Grace Jones →
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She who remains an enigma... →
Guardian piece on Kate Bush’s first and, as it turns out, only full UK tour.
Let’s try and make a list of bands and artists who shunned the battered transit van for the studio….
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The Night I Kissed Cindy Wilson
That sounds a lot...
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April 2010
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Watch[Warning: This video contains depiction of violence which some may find unpalatable.]
Yesterday I had one of those nights that never end. It included all kinds of bad jokes, petty philosphising, lots of alcohol, and a trawl for the studpidest, funniest, coolest, and bad-memory-inducing videos. In the “coolest” category, this one earned lots of bonus points.
There is a recent trend...
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: On music journalism →
Watching this guy squeal about the death of music journalism (spoiler alert: the 5 of us at The Hype Machine killed it), I started to remember why I hated music critics. Think back to your college paper: they were the loud, obnoxious, Comic Book Guys who would spend a few sentences spitting on…
Watch the video which is being ranted about. He has several good points, depressing though...
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March 2010
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you do the math →
Steve Albini is a man with an opinion, we all know that. Often times his opinion has gone directly against those about whom he has been opinionating on, or at least been highly subjective.
He is, however, a man I admire as a musician and technician, and someone who, whatever we may think, calls it as he sees it. Read this and weep, laugh, feel smug, whatever. Just be warned, young bucks.
[I...
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more culture 101 →
Interesting article from @RealDMitchell which explains in shiny bold letters what I guess many of us have suspected for years.
(Via @seaninsound)
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culture 101
There is no corner of subculture that will not yield to the advertising man or woman who seeks to exploit it.
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“It’s one am, you haven’t called
It must be four, wherever you are...”
– [In no particular order]
My favourite Sleater-Kinney tracks. #19 ‘Quarter To Three’ (The Hot Rock)
Lyrics by Sleater-Kinney
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taking you home: the best of sleater-kinney
[In light of a possible return by Sleater-Kinney and, at any rate, the prospect of a new music project for Carrie Brownstein, it seems a swell moment to revisit the band that Time Magazine felt fit to call America’s Best Band.]
A very swift introduction to Sleater-Kinney for the uninitiated.
You will not go far wrong on your journey of discovery with the list of SK tracks that follow....
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carrie brownstein talk music and movies →
No further explanation needed.
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“Went to the Sugababes album launch last night and three random women stormed the...”
– @GayTimesMag
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madonna through the looking glass
I couldn’t have put this any better myself, so I won’t even try. See here for Emily Nussbaum’s excellent solitary discourse on the phenomenon that is Madonna, complete with all the emotional push and pulls of her whole career, that defined more than a generation, and brought a way of life to the world.
For the record, I agree with pretty much everything that Nussbaum has to say...
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blur of the moment: down memory lane with the...
Memories, shmemories. We’ve all got them. And whilst I’m not keen on the now-continual wave of reforming bands gracing all manner of festivals (Wouldn’t expect less from mediocrities like Dodgy, but Faith No More, what are you doing???), I’ve been in two minds about the reformation of Blur. Of course, they were mighty, consistent and important, but shouldn’t we just...
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